Interesting Links for 22-10-2014

[andrewducker]

• Poor kids who do everything right don’t do much better than rich kids who do everything wrong
  (tags: inequality wealth society )
• The Internet: A Glossary
  (tags: funny internet ciph )
• A journalist investigates Gamergate to find the true basis for it. Can you guess what they find?
  (tags: games society sexism feminism )
• Mexican drug cartels are worse

Comments

[bart_calendar]

I thought the legalized pot in America were causing the cartels to start going broke?

[andrewducker]

It's probably having an effect. But at the moment it's a tiny proportion of the states - once it really gets going you'll hopefully see a much bigger effect.

[andrewducker]

We'll see whether Alaska, Oregon and DC voting kicks things into a higher gear.

(Plus Florida on medical marijuana.)

[bart_calendar]

There seems to be evidence that's it's already really hurting them.

https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels

[andrewducker]

Interesting.

Long may it continue!

[bart_calendar]

Yep, something that helps American farmers and hurts international mass murderers is a good thing.

[danieldwilliam]

Never a truer word.

[spacelem]

Indeed, maybe setting a trend where people realise that dogmatically approaching a problem head on isn't always going to solve it.

[gonzo21]

I saw a documentary recently about this, and it was really hurting the... one or two of I think Northern cartels who specialised in pot. They were suffering a severe slump in profits, and as a result they'd become weaker, and the stronger cartels were starting to take over their territory.

And it argued this was what was behind a particularly large wave of violence.

I think there might be an argument that fewer bigger cartels controlling more of Mexico is maybe worse than more smaller cartels controlling less territory. But... One imagines at some point one Cartel will take over the whole country, and essentially declare themselves the de-facto government.